Microsoft Updates Drivers for Surface Pro 4 and Surface Book

Microsoft is offering new updates for Surface Pro 4 and Surface Book today. This isn’t the first set up updates for these devices this month, but the big change is that Microsoft appears to finally be abandoning the term “firmware updates” in favor of the more correct “drive updates.”

And not just more updates. But a different way of describing them. If you look at the Surface Pro 4 update history page, for example, you’ll see that the May 24 updates are described in a completely new way compared to previous releases. And I believe we’re moving towards simply calling these updates what they are: Driver updates. That’s why you need to reinstall them if you PC reset the device. (True firmware updates would be retained.)

Surface Book

It’s not listed yet on the Surface Book update history page, but Surface Book should also be getting the same driver updates listed above. (Because Surface Pro 4 and Surface Book are the same devices, internally.) But Microsoft does list the following update from May 16: